Ilchi Lee, founder of Dahn Yoga

Ilchi Lee : There is Always a New You

By Ryan on Jul. 29, 2008.

An Ilchi Message for the Soul “A Flower Blossom in the Morning”

Role of brain stem

By Phil on Jul. 29, 2008.

Ilchi Lee says, the role of the brain stem is essentially to maintain your state of equilibrium. The body is designed to maintain a consistent state of health. You could say that any prolonged disease represents lack of equilibrium in the body.

So then why do things sometimes break down? Occasionally it is because of invaders, like viruses and bacteria, that the body is just not equipped to face. But, as you know, this is not the scenario that most people in modern society face. Humanity has learned a lot about controlling these invaders.

The great majority of the diseases of modern society, as you probably already know, are the result of lifestyle rather than some outside influence. In a way, through the choices we habitually make, Ilchi Lee says, we get in the way of our brain stem, and it never really has the chance to do its job.

A long time ago, Hippocrates said, “Everyone has a doctor within him or her; we just have to help it with its work.” Brain Wave Vibration is one way to get out of the way so that a deeper level of healing can begin.

Secret of the Brain Stem

By Phil on Jul. 26, 2008.

When you return to this basic rhythm of life, you return to what Ilchi Lee calls Yull-yo, the never-ending rhythm that pervades all of life and the entire universe. Eventually, as you progress in your practice of Brain Wave Vibration, you should not be reliant on the music playing in the CD player, the music outside yourself. That music is really just a reminder. Rather, you should go deep into the beautiful harmony that is part of who you are, a place one and the same as the entire universe.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Even as a small child, you witnessed the healing power of your brain stem at work. If you scraped your knees, Ilchi lee says, you could watch day-by-day as your body repaired itself, eventually becoming a brand new patch of skin. This kind of phenomenon, although commonplace, is really quite miraculous.

But what does the brain stem have to do with all this? Your brain stem is like a hidden conductor of the great symphony that makes up the intricate systems of your body. Without any conscious direction from you, it sends out messages to the body, telling your heart how fast to beat, commanding your white blood cells to spring into action, directing your digestive system to go to work, and coordinating a myriad of other bodily functions that continuously support your health and well-being.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

Ilchi Lee on For real brain mastery

By Phil on Jul. 24, 2008.

From Ilchi Lee’s new book: Brain Wave Vibration

Ilchi Lee says he remembers one time when he was a young man there was bridge under which people threw a lot of garbage. The garbage just piled up week after week. People complained about the garbage, but no one ever did anything to change the situation.

So one day, Lee decided he would do something about the problem. He began to clear the garbage away, one piece at a time. When all the trash had been hauled away, he buried it in a hole that he had dug in the mountains. He then planted pumpkin seeds in the ground covering the trash. Soon big, beautiful pumpkins were growing there.

This was a huge moment of discovery for Ilchi Lee. It came at a moment when he felt truly hopeless about his life. In his early twenties, he had failed the college entrance exams three times. He realized that all he really needed was the opportunity to do something positive for people, and that something positive could even come from a pile of trash.

True brain mastery is the ability to see possibility, even where others see only trash. Those pumpkins grew so well precisely because the garbage had been there before; the trash added nutrients to the soil.

For real brain mastery, you must learn to see your life in the same way, realizing that all the difficult, ug

Ilchi Lee: is this information truthful?

By Phil on Jul. 23, 2008.

Ilchi Lee who recently wrote Brain Wave Vibration asks this question to you.

Question 3: Is this information truthful?

The most important point is to assess the truth or falsehood of the information you receive. As you advance in your ability to tap into the vibrations of the universe, you will also gain natural ability to discern right from wrong and truth from falsehood. You will learn to trust your intuitive feelings in this regard. When something feels right, you will know it is right. When it is in accord with your true self, you will recognize it as truth; when it is not, you will also recognize that. David R. Hawkins has shown in his studies that truth and falsehood can be perceived intuitively by the body. If in doubt, just ask your brain–not the thinking brain but the intuitive brain. It always knows and is ready to share its wisdom.

I believe that there is a link between disease and the health of our brain waves, and the health of our brain waves is determined by the quality of information we possess. It is possible that specific diseases, like cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes, all relate to particular brain wave patterns. If you can change the brain waves that are producing the disease, then perhaps you can heal the disease as well.

One student of mine was a reporter, and he was constantly bombarded with negative information because he was in charge of reporting all sorts of negative news — accidents, crime, and the like. He was soon plagued with health problems, including deep fatigue and unnatural hair loss. On top of that, he smoked and drank too much to relieve the stress. Now his health has improved because he uses Brain Wave Vibration to clear away the negative information from his mind.

Rhythm of Life

By Phil on Jul. 22, 2008.

Medical science has confirmed that infants begin to responding to sounds around them long before they are born. Ilchi Lee suggests you to think about this. When you were developing in your mother’s womb, your ears were practically the only sensory organs taking in information. Your skin could sense the warmth of your mother’s body, but it was a consistent, unvarying temperature, and you were suspended in the amniotic fluid, an environment with very little variety of texture. Your eyes were closed to the dark interior of your mother’s body and your mouth had no food to taste.

You lived alone in a dark world where the unceasing rhythm of your mother’s heartbeat was your constant companion. This and the sounds of your parent’s voices were the first stimuli to create connections in your brain and the first to begin giving definition to your being. When you hear the sound of rhythmic drumming now, or when you follow the rhythmical movements of Brain Wave Vibration, Ilchi Lee says, you are transported back to a place of newness and simplicity.

Music is such a consistent part of the experience of life that you could say that rhythm is essential to life. Medieval scholars of Europe hypothesized that a great harmonic system, called “the music of the spheres,” kept the planets in their proper orbit and rotation. Likewise, they believed that an internal harmony existed within the human body. This may seem naive to the modern scientific mind, but on an intuitive level, there is great truth in that concept. Just stop and quiet yourself for a moment, and you will feel it. Ilchi Lee believes music really is a universal experience and the universal language.

Ilchi Lee on Brain Education Method

By Phil on Jul. 20, 2008.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

In his book This is Your Brain on Music, neuroscientist and musician Daniel J. Levitin discusses the effect music has on the human brain. He notes that music is unique in its ability to stimulate all areas of the brain at once. He says, “Musical activity involves nearly every region of the brain that we know about, and nearly every neural subsystem.”

In Ilchi Lee’s five-step Brain Education method, the goal of the fourth step, Brain Integrating, is to unify the three layers of the brain — the primitive brain stem, the emotional limbic system, and the rational neocortex. Very often one part of the brain undermines another, as when rational thinking is overcome by emotion. The goal of Brain Integrating is to get the various parts of the brain working together harmoniously, rather than competing with each other. Since it activates diverse parts of the brain, music seems to be a good step in that direction, which may also explain the cognitive advantage that children who study music seem to have over their nonmusical peers.

When Ilchi Lee trains people in the Brain Wave Vibration method, he usually use samunori, the traditional drumming art of his native Korea. It has its roots in very ancient aspects of Korean culture, originating in the rituals of farmers who wished to ensure the success of their crops.

Ilchi Lee believes that this music, like a lot of other traditional musical forms, possesses a remarkable ability to affect the brain positively. It may be that rhythmic music has a great psychological effect because the first experiences we perceive with our brains are rhythmical.

Ilchi Lee sees the brain as similar, in some ways, to a computer. Granted the brain is far more complex and can be modified through self-directed intention, which is certainly not the case with computers. However, he says he think it isa useful analogy to think in terms of the brain possessing an operating system.

Every brain, like every computer, has an operating system through which it processes the programs it receives. If you have not been able to create your life as you really want, then perhaps you simply can’t run that program on your current brain operating system. To do so would be like trying to run a current computer program on a version of Windows from the 1980s.

Your operating system is the system of beliefs and preconceptions through which you interact with the world. Sometimes these beliefs are very helpful to us if they help us understand the world by helping us process the data that we constantly receive through our senses.

But sometimes our brain operating system is programmed in a way that does not suit our intentions for our life. For example, let’s say you really would love to learn how to draw, but you have a belief about yourself that says, “I am not talented. Anything I try to draw is embarrassing.” You can see how your intention, which is like a program you would like to run, is incompatible with your underlying belief about yourself, which is like your operating system.

The same is true for anything else that you with to manifest in your life. If you want more money, upgrade your underlying beliefs about money. If you want better relationships, reevaluate how your brain processes relationships. This is true for anything you can dream of having or achieving.

Rhythmic movement of Brain Wave Vibration

By Phil on Jul. 17, 2008.

Even as adults, Ilchi Lee says, we tend to bounce our knees and drum our fingers when stressed or nervous. Also, when we feel disappointment or disgust, we shake our head side to side. This movement is done around the world, which Darwin noticed long ago through his observations of emotional expression. Ilchi Lee says he believes these motions are instinctive to people because they help calm the brain waves in a very natural way. Through the rhythmic movements of Brain Wave Vibration, Ilchi Lee hope you will begin to apply these methods to yourself in a more conscious, deliberate manner.

The healing power of rhythm is becoming very clear. Recently, drumming has become an increasingly popular form of therapy. It seems to Ilchi Lee, creator of BEST (Brain Education System Training) to offer troubled individuals a chance to release stored emotions and to gain a feeling of personal power. One study found that workers who got together to participate in group drumming gained a much more positive outlook about their work and developed a sense of community with their coworkers. Researchers concluded that drumming circles provided a great release for the workers’ stress and that the practice could reduce worker burnout significantly, leading to a reduction in employee turnover.

When people go out to a night club or blast the latest pop tunes from their car stereos, they are, in a sense, “self-medicating” their own brain waves. Typically, Ilchi Lee says, these songs have very heavy beats, which allow the brain to settle down to a more primitive, prerational state of being, in much the same way that tribal drumming helps produce subconscious, trancelike states in primitive healing practices. Of course, the effects are not quite so dramatic, but the constant, heavy beat does provide the brain a chance to “simmer down,” escaping from the constant left-brain, prefrontal cortex activity that modern life demands. So the next time you see the guy in the car next to you bobbing his head up and down to the rhythm of the latest top-ten hit, you can think to yourself, “Oh! He knows Brain Wave Vibration, too!”

You can practice Brain Wave Vibration, created by Ilchi Lee, at a local Dahn Yoga center around your office or home.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 5

By Phil on Jul. 13, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

Brain Education is currently thriving in hundreds of schools in Korea, and it has recently been successfully introduced in several K-8 schools in the United States. BE curriculum has been successful in teaching the English language to korean shcoolchildren in after-school programs, allowing kids to quickly and easily absorb a language very different from their own. Also the Korean Institute of Brain Science has hosted two International Brain HSP Olympiads, in which BE-trained children and adults have demonstrated a wide range of advanced mental skills, including information processing, memory, and even extrasensory ability.

Brain Education is especially appropriate for today’s children because it offers tools to cope with issues that are unique to the young generation. Children today are sometimes referred to as “Generation M” because media dominate their lives in so many ways. Media technology, such as cable television and the Internet, provides a constant and unlimited flow of information. Youngers must choose which ideas to accept and which to reject. Their choices in this regard will affect their patterns of thinking about themselves and the world around them. The job of the educator and the parent is to help guide children in making these important decisions, which is a difficult task in a media culture more interested in selling jeans and cola than in creating well-rounded, confident individuals. Brain Education, in its essence, offers simple tools that provide children with the power to choose and use information more effectively.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 4

By Phil on Jul. 12, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

The number of academic articles on this topic is staggering, offering research on almost every possible topic, from learning disabilities to gender differences to brain development. The underlying message of all this research is very simple: to understand the child’s brain is to understand the child.

I developed the Brain Education method in South Korea in the 1980s as an updating of traditional Korean mind-body health training systems. The principles and practices of the method were then combined with knowledge about the brain gained from neuroscience, psychology, and other fields. Its essential goal, however, remains very straightforward and practical - the physical, emotional, social, and academic betterment of human beings.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 3

By Phil on Jul. 11, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

Brain research has clearly established that emotional and physical health directly influence children’s ability to learn and consequently affect their performance in school (see Vail). Essentially, the best students are the happiest students. For that reason, Brain Education seeks to enhance learning ability by first creating happier and healthier children. Through consistent BE practice, children gain a sense of empowerment toward the creation of a fulfilling and healthy lifestyle.

Of course Brain Education is not the only educational system to emphasize the role of the brain in the learning process. Educators are increasingly turning to the discoveries of neuroscience to help them better understand how students learn, and many brain-based educational methods are in use today (see Nunley). In some ways, however, the study of the human brain is still in its infancy, and many aspects of brain function remain a mystery. You could say that we are just now entering “the era of the brain,” as neuroscientific knowledge increases almost daily, and the link between this information and educational pedagogy grows stronger and stronger.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 3

By Phil on Jul. 10, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

For this reason, we must help our children develop brains prepared for this expanded role. Through proper education, the world becomes a treasure trove of possibility for our children, rather than a dreaded Pandora’s box of contradictory ideas and misinformation. In the past, educational systems have focused on the storage of facts appropriate to the culture in which they exist. That approach is no longer adequate in today’s complex world. Children must develop skills to make their minds flexible and highly adaptive.

The primary goal of Brain Education is to create “power brains” that are creative, peaceful, and productive. Its intention is not only to make better students but also to create happier, healthier people. While education traditionally emphasizes analytical and verbal skills (consider, for example, the content of the SAT), Brain Education develops interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, as well.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 2

By Phil on Jul. 9, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

Brain-based models of education are becoming increasingly popular, perhaps because today’s children will be required to use their brains as no other generation before them. As the population has soared, the human world has in many ways shrunk, bringing people closer together through the technologies of communication and transporation. John Donne said long ago that “no man is an island,” but this may be truer today than ever before. In the twenty-first century, one could also contend that “no culture is an island,” as peoples merge and interact in ways unique in human history. This trend has brought great blessings and many challenges to the human condition.

Our children do not live in a world where belief systems and bodies of knowledge are passed from generation to generation without external influences. Rather, today’s child must face a veritable smorgasbord of information from which to choose. Our children must be able to adapt and process all this varied information easily and peacefully, so that they can make the best choices for themselves and the world as a whole.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 1

By Phil on Jul. 8, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

Wouldn’t it be great if we could guarantee our children’s happiness? Virtually all parents and educators want to raise children who become highly productive, culturally aware, and emotionally secure adults. Yet so many children head into adolescence and young adulthood filled with angst and doubt about the meaning and direction of their lives.

Realistically, there is no way we can guarantee anyone’s happiness, including that of our own children. However, we can provide tools to help them achieve greater happiness on their own. This book, which is based on the Brain Education (BE) training system, places the source of happiness in the brain, not in external things, such as academic or financial success. It is based on the notion that happy, confident people are more likely to be more successful in all areas of life.

by Ilchi Lee

Distinguished Speakers in UN conference

By healingfamily on Jul. 1, 2008.

At the UN conference of Brain Education (6/20/2008), the distinguished speakers had lecture

They are:
Antonio Damasio, M.D., Ph.D, Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, author of Descartes’ Error (Neuroscience, Education and Culture)
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., author of My Stroke of Insight, recognized by Time Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential persons (How to Use the Brain Well)
Ilchi Lee, President, University of Brain Education and IBREA (Brain Education – Our Hope for the Earth)
Eran Katz, Regional Coordinator for IBREA Israel and author of Secrets of a Super Memory (Unlimited Potential of the Brain)

Jessie Jones, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center for Successful Aging, California State University, Fullerton (Brain Education for Successful Aging)
Dong-geun Seul, Commissioner of Education, Busan, South Korea (Character Education and Brain Education)
Warrington Parker, Jr., Ph.D., Vice President, IBREA USA (Brain Education in U.S. Schools)
Helene-Marie Gosselin, Director, UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, New York Office (Education for a Culture of Peace)
Hanifa Mezoui, Ph.D., Chief, NGO Section, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN (UN Millennium Development Goals).

Everybody’s lecture was so impressed, and gave us lots of hope for our future.

First I want to introduce the topic of Dr. Jill Taylor’s lecture.

How to Get Your Brain to Do What You Want It to Do

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Author, My Stroke of Insight

On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven year old Harvard-trained neuroscientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain – the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side – swung in and out of function, she alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized that she had had a stroke and enabled her to seek help. In this talk, Dr. Taylor will share her perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery; the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain; and the recalibration of her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from the right brain.

http://drjilltaylor.com/